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Locomotives built by the Vulcan Foundry of Newton-le-Willows, latterly part of the English Electric group. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vulcan Foundry locomotives . Pages in category "Vulcan Foundry locomotives"
Chinese KF7, built by Vulcan, in the National Railway Museum in York Vulcan Foundry works plate No. 3977 of 1926 on LMS Fowler Class 3F No. 47406 in 2012. Details of the earliest locomotives are not precisely known despite an "official" list apparently concocted in the 1890s which contains a lot of guesswork and invention, with many quite fictitious locomotives, for the period before 1845.
1830 Charles Tayleur and Company, (Vulcan Foundry) Warrington Became Vulcan Foundry in 1847 1830 Tulk and Ley, Whitehaven. Taken over by Fletcher Jennings Ltd. in 1857 1831 Crook and Dean, Little Bolton. Built locos for Bolton and Leigh Railway in 1831 including Salamander and Veteran [2] 1832 Rothwell and Company, Bolton Closed approx 1864
Locomotives from the National Collection in the Great Hall of the UK National Railway Museum. The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums: National Railway Museum, York; Locomotion, Shildon
Vulcan (Tayleur 51; 1837–1868) This locomotive was the first to run on the Great Western Railway when it was tested on 28 December 1837 from its shed at West Drayton . It was withdrawn in 1843 but was rebuilt as a 2-2-2T tank locomotive and returned to service in 1846, running in this form until 1868.
Vulcan Works, Thornton Road, Bradford, ca 1888, founded by Robinson Thwaites, was one of several Victorian era iron mills sharing the name; like many others, it made a wide variety of machinery including mining equipment and locomotives. Vulcan Iron Works was the name of several iron foundries in both England and the United States during the ...
The Indian locomotive class WCG-1 (originally classified as EF/1) is a class of 1.5 kV DC freight-hauling electric locomotives that were developed in the late 1920s by Vulcan Foundry and Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM) for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. A total of 41 WCG-1 locomotives were built in England between 1928 and 1929.
The new owners had to procure a fleet of locomotives, carriages, and wagons quickly. The four A 4 locomotives were bought from the Vulcan Foundry of Newton-le-Willows, England in 1871. They had originally been part of an order of six locomotives for the Somerset and Dorset Railway.